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My record collection
Progress report #5 (201 - 250)

Up until now the progress reports have pretty much been nothing more than a bunch of numbers, but since we’re now over half-way through the project I thought I should try and be a little more insightful… although, there’s still going to be numbers!

My record collection 201 to 250
My record collection 201 to 250

When I started the project, back at the beginning of 2023 I don’t think I was aware of just how big a project it was, my intention was to just do the occasional post, be a bit selective, and have it all wrapped up in a few months… but, here we are 850 days on and still the end is well over a year away.

Having said that, I have really enjoyed revisiting these records - it’s too easy to just keep picking from a small subset so, having a project like this, has forced me to listen to things I haven’t listened to very often, and in some cases, not at all. Some of it has been an absolute joy to get back to - for example I really enjoyed pulling out the Pee Shy records that Dean produced; or listening to the other tracks on the compilations that have only one or two tracks that got them included - e.g. The Ladybug Transistor and Kevin Ayers playing Puis-je/May I on Pop Romantique and Marbles by Tindersticks that appeared on Speed Dating - although I’ll be happy never to have to listen to Dwarves again (on that same comp).

I have sometimes found it tricky to come up with interesting things to say so posts can vary in length:

Five longest posts:

… and the five shortest:

Most of the posts (109) have been about CD or CDr - although I suspect over the last few years vinyl has been putting in a strong push to catch up, here are the lists of posts by format:

Formats for posts 1 to 250
Formats for posts 1 to 250

So… still plenty of catching up to do, fortunately there is still plenty of activity from Galaxie 500’s former band members - the following have all been released since the project started:

… and only one of those is a CD (although I do also have a CD copy of Uncollected in the backlog).

I have also been quietly filling in the collection with some older releases as well… but those are just getting added into the spreadsheet to be randomly picked at some point.

  • In progress report #1 (after the first 50 posts) the estimated completion date was Thursday 7th May 2026
  • In progress report #2 it was Thursday 27th July 2026
  • In progress report #3 it was Monday, 23th July 2026 (I think this was after some backlog refinement)
  • In progress report #4 it was Thursday, 16th July 2026 (I think I actually forgot to include some after massaging the spreadsheet)

The current estimated completion date is back to Thursday, 27th July 2026

OK, that pretty much turned out to just be a bunch of stats anyway!

I have written over 94000 words in the series so far, which means I’ve pushed past Nineteen Eighty-Four and am heading up towards The Hobbit!

The total number of rows (=posts) in my spreadsheet is 375 (up 6 from progress report #4 - although that might be due to the mis-counting I mentioned above)